Word: legion
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...wait around for two years before he could pick up his appointment to the class of 1933 at Annapolis. He was a Navy pilot at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck, came out of the war an authentic hero with a boxful of medals, including the Purple Heart, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Silver Star...
...National Palace, De Gaulle presented each of the four delighted members of the ruling military junta with one of France's most distinguished medals, the golden sunburst of a "Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor...
When De Gaulle departed, things were definitely looking up for France's grand design-at least in Ecuador. Then came trouble. Though De Gaulle had given each of the four junta members the Grand Officer, he had bestowed the much more exclusive "Grand-Croix of the Legion of Honor" on the heads of state in all the other countries he visited...
...domain. These glimpses are pulled together in his studio, where Hurd toils in the meticulous technique of egg tempera. The results, recently on view at Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum of Western Art and opening last week in San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor, is an exhibition of 98 paintings that documents nearly 35 years of the artist's minute observations of the world he knows best (see color...
...cannot content ourselves with a role within the alliance of auxiliaries to a Roman legion," said one Gaullist Deputy, advancing the reasonable enough argument that a truly independent Europe cannot permanently depend on the U.S. nuclear deterrent for its defense. There are only two things wrong with this reasoning: 1) De Gaulle expects the rest of Europe, including Germany, to be dependent on France in precisely the way he refuses to be dependent on the U.S.; 2) the French deterrent as out lined last week is not worth much now and will not be for a long time...